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Why Do The Batteries In Your Headphones Suck Now?
There are many things that inspire scientific discoveries. The search for a better future; the endless quest to unravel the ...
ESS's Saltwater Flow Batteries Are Starting To Gain Traction
ESS Tech, Inc. has struggled to commercialize its innovative grid-scale iron redox flow batteries, but it looks like ESS’s ...
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Startup unveils impressive heat batteries made from bricks — and they could revolutionize factories around the world
A new startup has developed a technology that it believes will eliminate the generation of 15% of global carbon dioxide ...
Powerful Is Not Enough: Solid-State Batteries Must Also Be Sustainable
The promise of solid-state batteries must extend beyond performance metrics—and encompass their entire life cycle impact.
Here's how EPA disposes of lithium ion batteries from Palisades Fire
When lithium ion batteries catch fire, the resulting chemical reaction is toxic. Here's how the EPA is safely rendering these ...
Taking the ‘forever’ out of ‘forever chemicals’: we worked out how to destroy the PFAS in batteries
The PFAS in lithium-ion batteries is a major obstacle to recycling or disposing of these batteries safely. But we have a way ...
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German government funds research into sodium-ion batteries
The project ‘Sodium-Ion-Battery Deutschland-Forschung - SIB:DE FORSCHUNG,’ which has now launched, aims to evaluate the ...
Flame retardants in some batteries might be making fires worse
“Historically, flame retardant use to meet flammability standards has resulted in documented health risks without ...
In cleanup from California fires, lithium-ion batteries are a dangerous challenge
One of the biggest cleanup challenges from the Southern California fires is lithium-ion batteries, which can explode after ...
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‘Unprecedented' number of lithium ion batteries complicates LA wildfires cleanup
What authorities described as one of the largest lithium-ion battery cleanups ever is underway in Los Angeles County ...
Los Angeles fire cleanup complicated by 'unprecedented' number of EVs with combustible lithium-ion batteries
California wildfire cleanup is complicated by highly combustible lithium-ion batteries found in electric and hybrid vehicles ...
Norfolk Daily News1d
While useful, lithium batteries also have downsides
We might want to take a second look at lithium batteries. These batteries have provided us with wonderful rechargeable products. I love our cordless vacuum cleaner, rechargeable earbuds and rechargeab ...